Dead Eye Down

Dead Eye Down 7/7/2014

A straight simple explanation

Is most often correct

Even if there are many reasons

For this, and for that.

Cut away all the extra

And what is it

That is left?

Nothing but the emotions

Behind all that we do. 

At eye level

Things look different

And behind closed doors

Much is said and done.

With each day

And with each communication

The veil comes off

An inch at a time.

Savor the moment

And know the miracle of life

Remembering where it comes from

And where we all might go. 

Nothing is certain

But the promise

And that is the reason

Hatred tugs at the soul. 

But a good man

Will protect his own

And that is never wrong

For God gave us children

That we should defend.

If the world is a stage

Then all of us can see

The fate of the defenseless

In the future

And in the past. 

The future stares at us

With gaunt bodies

And vacant eyes

As their present

Becomes our future.

But only if we go

As lambs to the slaughter

Silently stumbling

To a predictable fate.

Bleeding out

For a cult of death

On our way to an extinction

Completely avoidable. 

The altar awaits

Upon the ashes of the past

As another goes up

And stretches their neck. 

Be it neither you or me

But only time will tell

As the ledge starts to crumble

And we stare into hell.